In an effort to promote electric vehicles for ecofriendly mobility and draw investment in the e-vehicle sector, the state cabinet chaired by chief minister Yogi Adityanath cleared the New Electric Vehicle Manufacturing and Mobility Policy 2022 on Thursday.

The Indian Army is gearing up to replace existing petrol and diesel vehicles in its fleet with electric vehicles, in line with the government’s policy of reducing carbon emissions.

Mahindra & Mahindra and Jio-bp are set to strengthen their partnership by setting up a charging network to provide easy charging facilities for the upcoming Mahindra e-SUVs. Jio-bp will be installing DC fast chargers at Mahindra dealerships as well as workshops across the country, starting with 16 cities.

In a bid to promote the Centre’s green energy drive, Bengaluru-headquartered Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), in collaboration with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), has set up a fast electric vehicle (EV) charging station at the latter’s retail outlet at Amravati Enclave near Pinjore on the Chandigarh-Shimla Highway

It envisages installation of EV charging stations at the railway stations in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Surat by December 2024

"Currently, the number of charging stations are too less, of the order of approximately 32 EVs per charging station in India," according to the report issued by JMK Research. It suggested that drastic steps need to be undertaken for installation of charging stations in India to overcome the chicken and egg problem of the EV sector.

Renault plans to build a network of charging stations for electric cars along motorways across Europe, the French carmaker's e-mobility services unit said on Monday.

In November 2021, the Delhi government had set in place a single window facility for installation of EV chargers in private and semi-public spaces in Delhi, which includes residential spaces like apartments and group housing societies, institutional buildings like hospitals, and commercial spaces like kirana stores, shops and malls.

KSEBL is planning to introduce an end-to-end software solution for its EV charging stations on a pilot basis. Currently, the vendors who run the charging stations of the board use different softwares, forcing consumers to use five mobile applications to get their EVs charged in the state

The Union ministry of power wants to develop charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs) in cities with a population of 40 lakh-plus in the first phase and the plan covers Ahmedabad and Surat in Gujarat

The Bhusawal division of the Central Railway has floated a tender for electric vehicle-charging ports that will be set up at the Nashik Road railway station.

Municipal commissioner Radhakrishnan B on Thursday announced a 2% rebate in property tax to housing societies and individuals for setting up electric vehicle charging stations. Citing the Maharashtra government’s Electric Vehicles Policy, Radhakrishnan signed the administrative order to implement the decision on Thursday.

In a first, the National Highways for EV (NHEV) inaugurated a

miniature concept model of charging stations that will

replace traditional fuel pumps in the future

The Delhi government had recently announced plans to set up kerbside electric vehicle (EV) charging points across the city. Public Works Department (PWD) has now picked 20 road stretches for installation of these EV chargers as a part of the pilot project, while 55 roads in North-East and NorthWest districts have been deemed not feasible for the project so far.

Energy giant Shell is planning to install 10,000 EV charging stations in India by 2030. On Thursday, the company launched its EV chargers in the Indian market for twowheeler and four-wheeler segments in Bengaluru.

A research group of the electrical engineering department of IIT (ISM), Dhanbad, has developed the model of a hybrid renewable energy driven bi-directional wireless charging system that ensures charging of electric vehicles in static as well as dynamic conditions.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to set up at least 41 charging stations in parking lots across the city in order to address the infrastructure concerns of the buyers of electric vehicles (EVs).

The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Friday held a wide range of talks with the Mahatma Phule Renewable Energy and Infrastructure Technology Ltd (MahaPreit) of the state government for works in waste, energy, solar and EV charging station infrastructure sectors.

The risk instrument will help banks hedge against loan defaults and cut the cost of financing EVs, India’s G20 sherpa Amitabh Kant said at the sidelines of an industry event in New Delhi. Kant was CEO of government thinktank NITI Aayog until June this year, spearheading state policy decisions across the economy.

The companies will first set up charging stations in select cities and then expand to other key markets with the aim of establishing a high density of EV charging station network across the country. The companies will also first establish charging infrastructure at HPCL’s existing network of energy stations, following which they will likely broaden the collaboration for supplementary business opportunities, it added.